"How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?"

“Reason lost the battle, and all I could do was surrender and accept I was in love.”

“We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.”

“If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.”

“Remembering is only a new form of suffering.”

Source : Charles Baudelaire (1986). “La Fanfarlo”

“Among other things, neuroplasticity means that emotions such as happiness and compassion can be cultivated in much the same way that a person can learn through repetition to play golf and basketball or master a musical instrument, and that such practice changes the activity and physical aspects of specific brain areas.”

Source : Andrew Weil (2011). “Spontaneous Happiness: Step-by-step to peak emotional wellbeing”, p.41, Hachette UK

“The New York Times and Washington Post are both infested with homosexuals themselves. Just about every person down there is a homosexual or lesbian.”

Source : "Jesse Helms: Yankee Doodle Jesse" by Martin Lewis, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 4, 2008.

“There are different ways to shop for different people.”

“Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.”